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This has got to be the best North Korean prison camp ever!

Drunk commies deleted
18-02-2006, 17:47
A bunch of North Korean cheerleaders have been placed in a prison camp because they spoke of what they saw in South Korea. The Cheerleaders were sent to S. Korea for the Asian Games. Upon returning to N. Korea they violated their pledge not to talk about conditions in the South.

If I were going to go to a N. Korean prison camp I would really like to go to the one with Cheerleaders. What better to raise one's spirits than perky girls in short skirts jumping around? Maybe N. Korea isn't so bad after all.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060217/D8FQRS087.html
Randomlittleisland
18-02-2006, 17:50
There's no picture. :(
Fass
18-02-2006, 17:50
Why does a country that is not the US have something so awfully vacuous as cheerleaders? I mean, if you need to be lead into cheer, then you have bigger problems than your team sucking...
Drunk commies deleted
18-02-2006, 17:51
Why does a country that is not the US have something so awfully vacuous as cheerleaders? I mean, if you need to be lead into cheer, then you have bigger problems than your team sucking...
It's a straight thing. You wouldn't understand.
Deep Kimchi
18-02-2006, 17:51
Why does a country that is not the US have something so awfully vacuous as cheerleaders? I mean, if you need to be lead into cheer, then you have bigger problems than your team sucking...
You're just gloating that your country is kicking the US ass at the Olympics.

That aside, you know how much trouble cheerleaders can be. Witness the fact that they had to imprison them when they got back.
Whereyouthinkyougoing
18-02-2006, 17:54
It's a straight thing. You wouldn't understand.
Then again, is there anything more camp than cheerleaders? Methinks not.
Drunk commies deleted
18-02-2006, 17:55
Then again, is there anything more camp than cheerleaders? Methinks not.
Any of this man's movies.

http://sidesalad.net/archives/john-waters.jpg
Fass
18-02-2006, 17:55
You're just gloating that your country is kicking the US ass at the Olympics.

We are?

That aside, you know how much trouble cheerleaders can be.

No, no I don't.
Eutrusca
18-02-2006, 17:55
If I were going to go to a N. Korean prison camp I would really like to go to the one with Cheerleaders. What better to raise one's spirits than perky girls in short skirts jumping around? Maybe N. Korea isn't so bad after all.
You actually believe that North Korean cheerleaders wear short skirts??? :eek:

http://img334.imageshack.us/img334/3286/nkoreancheerleaders5av.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Deep Kimchi
18-02-2006, 17:56
We are?


Yes. Give the women's hockey team a pat on the back, because they rule.

Not sure you want to see women though. Maybe that's why you weren't watching.
Fass
18-02-2006, 17:57
It's a straight thing. You wouldn't understand.

The straight thing to do would be to just go look at naked girls in a strip club. Why this detour around thinly veiled social acceptability? Oh, wait - therein lies the straightness, as in heterosexuality, I guess.
Drunk commies deleted
18-02-2006, 17:58
You actually believe that North Korean cheerleaders wear short skirts??? :eek:

http://img334.imageshack.us/img334/3286/nkoreancheerleaders5av.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Those look more like protestors.
Eutrusca
18-02-2006, 17:58
The straight thing to do would be to just go look at naked girls in a strip club. Why this detour around thinly veiled social acceptability? Oh, wait - therein lies the straightness, as in heterosexuality, I guess.
Heh! And beyond that, why bother spending your hard-earned cash on strip clubs? Just pick up some willing young thang and take her home. Then you can either just stare at her or take whatever action seems appropriate at the time. :D
Franberry
18-02-2006, 17:58
You actually believe that North Korean cheerleaders wear short skirts??? :eek:

http://img334.imageshack.us/img334/3286/nkoreancheerleaders5av.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

thats it, North Korea can now be bombed to hell and back, and i would not object to it
Fass
18-02-2006, 17:59
Yes. Give the women's hockey team a pat on the back, because they rule.

Not sure you want to see women though. Maybe that's why you weren't watching.

I'm not much for hockey, and it's aired during the day, when I'm at the hospital. I like figure skating more, and they air it in the evenings, so I guess I'm lucky.
Eutrusca
18-02-2006, 17:59
Those look more like protestors.
I rest my case! :D
The Divided God
18-02-2006, 18:00
"And then there was this one time at North Korean prison camp I stuck a flute...."
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
18-02-2006, 18:00
The straight thing to do would be to just go look at naked girls in a strip club. Why this detour around thinly veiled social acceptability? Oh, wait - therein lies the straightness, as in heterosexuality, I guess.
Because simple nakedness is unimaginative, dull and fucking common.
It takes skill and a cunning tailor to excite someone while maintaining "scantily clad" status. If the only option available has to be alive, then she/he might as well do something interesting.
Eutrusca
18-02-2006, 18:02
Those look more like protestors.
Better? :D

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/9839/nkoreancheerleaders21wp.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:02
Because simple nakedness is unimaginative, dull and fucking common.
It takes skill and a cunning tailor to excite someone while maintaining "scantily clad" status. If the only option available has to be alive, then she/he might as well do something interesting.

You just called cheerleading interesting. Dwell on that.
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:04
Heh! And beyond that, why bother spending your hard-earned cash on strip clubs? Just pick up some willing young thang and take her home. Then you can either just stare at her or take whatever action seems appropriate at the time. :D

Because no nonsense sex seems to be gay.
Drunk commies deleted
18-02-2006, 18:06
"And then there was this one time at North Korean prison camp I stuck a flute...."
You've got to love her.
http://www.celebritycd.com/alyson_hannigan/alyson_hannigan_26.jpg
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:07
You've got to love her.
http://www.celebritycd.com/alyson_hannigan/alyson_hannigan_26.jpg

Tara did. I can't believe I know that...
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
18-02-2006, 18:07
You just called cheerleading interesting. Dwell on that.
Nothing wrong with some slutty acrobatics, when they are performed by women who are sufficiently talented at being sluts and acrobats.
Most women aren't, of course, and so a lot of it is bland and unispiring, but still more interesting than a bored woman with at least 5 different types of VD molesting a pole.
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:08
Nothing wrong with some slutty acrobatics, when they are performed by women who are sufficiently talented at being sluts and acrobats.
Most women aren't, of course, and so a lot of it is bland and unispiring, but still more interesting than a bored woman with at least 5 different types of VD molesting a pole.

You're being awfully unfair to strippers.
Deep Kimchi
18-02-2006, 18:08
Nothing wrong with some slutty acrobatics, when they are performed by women who are sufficiently talented at being sluts and acrobats.
Most women aren't, of course, and so a lot of it is bland and unispiring, but still more interesting than a bored woman with at least 5 different types of VD molesting a pole.

I think perhaps that Fass prefers his sex to be more clinical.

After all, as a doctor, he has to look at people in paper gowns all day long.

Might make you cynical about the capacity for anyone, male or female, to excite you.
Eutrusca
18-02-2006, 18:09
Because no nonsense sex seems to be gay.
You've led far too sheltered a life. :p
JuNii
18-02-2006, 18:10
I think perhaps that Fass prefers his sex to be more clinical.

After all, as a doctor, he has to look at people in paper gowns all day long.

Might make you cynical about the capacity for anyone, male or female, to excite you.Makes one wonder on the sex life of Gynocologists who are male...
Markreich
18-02-2006, 18:11
Why does a country that is not the US have something so awfully vacuous as cheerleaders? I mean, if you need to be lead into cheer, then you have bigger problems than your team sucking...

It helps! If Sweden were to add cheerleaders (say, for Hockey), then maybe your rates of alcoholism & suicide would dip!
Eutrusca
18-02-2006, 18:11
These people are scary, even the cheerleaders! :eek:

Glamour and the great leader

By Jeremy Kirk, Stars and Stripes
Pulse, Wednesday, January 14, 2004

It’s no wonder the 300 North Korean cheerleaders who came to South Korea during the Taegu University Games put the communist country in a good light for once.

With frozen, eerily smiling faces, the North Korean fembots mechanically rooted for their home communist team, while endlessly fascinating the media and some of the public during their 13-day stay.

It was beauty beyond the Demilitarized Zone, a glimpse at youth that eclipsed the grim talk of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

“I think when people meet with North Koreans especially … they are interested in what they find in common,” said Chun S. Moon, an expert on South Korean public opinion with Seoul’s Asia Foundation.

But through media interviews “people realize these people are quite different,” Moon said.

Maybe that’s because most images from the North are of Kim Jong Il, a short man with huge glasses, a bad perm and poor taste in clothing.

So, did North Korea’s cheerleaders prove the Korean adage: handsome men come from the South, beautiful ladies come from the North?

An Aug. 27 survey of 363 South Korean men and women by Duo, a matchmaking company, found that 76.6 percent of respondents thought South Korean women were prettier than North Korean women. North Korean women were noted for their “pure” and “natural” look but panned for sometimes looking homely.

Lee Sae-young, a 23-year-old Seoulite working at a shopping mall, said the North Korean cheerleaders weren’t that hot. “They look like people straight from the ’60s or ’70s,” said Lee, who said the girls reminded him of old pictures of his mother long ago.

But here’s what scared Lee: the girls’ fanatical devotion to their leader, Kim Jong Il — a real turn-off. When asked if they wanted to stay in South Korea longer, many of the girls replied “I would like to go back to our great leader as soon as possible,” according to a report in the Dong-a Ilbo.

Although reporters shouted questions to them, the girls maintained the party line, chanting “We are one nation with the same race, same language and same blood,” and “Let’s live in a united country without any dishonor.”

It showed that even during what supposedly was an apolitical sporting event, politics were still in the forefront.

Using attractive women to smooth over rifts is common in Asia and “a kind of way Koreans can reach each other and get off the political garbage,” said David Garretson, a professor of Asian studies at the University of Maryland.

“I’m sure that’s what their instructions were,” he said. “You’ll have political opportunists whose job it is to be sure they don’t say the wrong things. I’m sure that’s what the cheerleaders were told.”

The women were quick to spout party lines, petite damsels preaching North Korean gospel. They even took down a banner with a picture of Kim Jong Il and former South Korean president Kim Dae-jung shaking hands during their June 2000 summit in Pyongyang.

The reason: it was raining on the Dear Leader.

The headline in the Korea Herald, an English paper, read “Fear of Kim’s Wetness Stirs Up Controversy.” It was reported the women began crying when seeing the banner and forced bus drivers to stop so they could take it down.

“I don’t really like that kind of attitude the North Korean cheerleaders had,” said Kim Sung-il, a 24-year-old from Seoul. But Kim added the women were prettier than South Korean women and he would marry one if he could.

The ladies nearly never made it here at all.

The North Koreans almost boycotted the games after a North Korean flag and Kim Jong Il’s photo were torched Aug. 15 — Korea’s Liberation Day — in front of Seoul’s City Hall. Only after South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun apologized for the demonstrations did the North Koreans affirm their participation.

Sadly, the president seemed to be apologizing for having a democratic society, some experts said.

“I think that’s part of the general effort not to offend North Korea as much as possible.” Garretson said.

Although security tightly limited access to the cheerleaders, hints of the North Korean lifestyle came through. One girl remarked they were not allowed to watch television. When asked her impression of the South, another said it was apparent South Korea had too much Western influence that overshadowed its Korean heritage.

The girls’ black, crow-like hair showed no signs of the hair colorings commonly used by South Korean women. Their makeup seemed waxy and simple. Their chiseled smiles and synchronized movements unfailingly endured.

“The way they behaved — it’s not natural to me,” said Han Kum-jung, a 20-year-old woman from Seoul. While the Northern women were good cheerleaders, Han said she felt little kinship with them and had few good feelings.

Kim Cheol-soo, 35, said the South Korean media made too big of a deal about the cheergirls. South Koreans aren’t that concerned about North Korean women, he said.

But the cheerleaders did look pure, as opposed to Southerners’ thick makeup. Nonetheless, “I don’t like their style,” Kim said. “Women should be stylish.”
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:12
I think perhaps that Fass prefers his sex to be more clinical.

Well, I do like speculum play.

After all, as a doctor, he has to look at people in paper gowns all day long.

We don't have those here. Patients get to have a modicum of dignity. Quite vexing.

Might make you cynical about the capacity for anyone, male or female, to excite you.

Not being ill helps.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
18-02-2006, 18:12
You're being awfully unfair to strippers.
You're being awfully unfair to cheerleaders.
Ashmoria
18-02-2006, 18:13
A bunch of North Korean cheerleaders have been placed in a prison camp because they spoke of what they saw in South Korea. The Cheerleaders were sent to S. Korea for the Asian Games. Upon returning to N. Korea they violated their pledge not to talk about conditions in the South.

If I were going to go to a N. Korean prison camp I would really like to go to the one with Cheerleaders. What better to raise one's spirits than perky girls in short skirts jumping around? Maybe N. Korea isn't so bad after all.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060217/D8FQRS087.html
yeah nothing cheers you up quite like watching pretty girls eat rats.
Deep Kimchi
18-02-2006, 18:13
Well, I do like speculum play.


Promise to wear your white coat?
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:13
It helps! If Sweden were to add cheerleaders (say, for Hockey), then maybe your rates of alcoholism & suicide would dip!

They are already low. Wait, are you one of those people who still think they are high because we were the first country to correctly report and measure them half a century ago?
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:14
You're being awfully unfair to cheerleaders.

Strippers contribute. Cheerleaders don't.
Drunk commies deleted
18-02-2006, 18:14
Tara did. I can't believe I know that...
Meh, I'm a walking Buffy encyclopedia. It's nothing to be ashamed about.
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:15
Promise to wear your white coat?

Scrubs are like a second skin. I can turn myself on in them. So, umm, yes.
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:15
Meh, I'm a walking Buffy encyclopedia. It's nothing to be ashamed about.

Yes, yes it is.
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:17
You've led far too sheltered a life. :p

That's the first time I have gotten that, and in a way, you probably are correct. Straight PDAs make me queasy, so I tend to look the other way.
Biotopia
18-02-2006, 18:18
Kim Jong Il AKA: "The Dear Leader"

Looks: +2
Smarts: +6
WMDs: 2
Totalitarian tendencies: +12
Democratic tendencies: -8
Economic policy: starving (+1)
Coolness: +10 [he travels in an armoured train! AND he imprisons cheerleaders]

0 = minimum
10 = maximim
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
18-02-2006, 18:20
Strippers contribute. Cheerleaders don't.
Contribute to what? Certainly not my libido.
Cheerleaders are somewhat more likely to try and be original than strippers. I mean, when you hear about two cheerleaders making out, you might be marginally surprised.
Strippers? megh, a symptom of depressingly gauche and common sexuality that can be excited merely by the presence of "Omigod B00bi35!" or "Omigod P3n15!"
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:23
Contribute to what? Certainly not my libido.

They deserve kudos just for that.

Cheerleaders are somewhat more likely to try and be original than strippers. I mean, when you hear about two cheerleaders making out, you might be marginally surprised.

Not really, since they're rendered the bigger attention whores they've always been.

Strippers? megh, a symptom of depressingly gauche and common sexuality that can be excited merely by the presence of "Omigod B00bi35!" or "Omigod P3n15!"

You say that like it's a bad thing.
Deep Kimchi
18-02-2006, 18:24
That's the first time I have gotten that, and in a way, you probably are correct. Straight PDAs make me queasy, so I tend to look the other way.
Guess that's why you're not a gynecologist, either.
Drunk commies deleted
18-02-2006, 18:24
Yes, yes it is.
No it's not. That show had clever story lines, cheezy monsters and fight scenes, and decent comedy. Plus it had these fine ladies.

http://swaliciasilverstone.tripod.com/Women/AlysonHannigan/AlysonHannigan02.jpg

http://www.superiorpics.com/charisma_carpenter/images/main1.jpg

http://www.celebrity-pictures-world.com/pics/e/emma-caulfield/emma-caulfield-002.jpg

http://www.celebrities.pl/sarah_michelle_gellar/sarah_michelle4.jpg
Eutrusca
18-02-2006, 18:24
That's the first time I have gotten that, and in a way, you probably are correct. Straight PDAs make me queasy, so I tend to look the other way.
ROFL! Touche! Touche! :D
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:25
Guess that's why you're not a gynecologist, either.

Actually, ob/gyn is one of the fields I find the most interesting, and I've had my fingers up more twats than I'd like to confess. Never underestimate professionalism as a shield against the distasteful.
Eutrusca
18-02-2006, 18:27
Actually, ob/gyn is one of the fields I find the most interesting, and I've had my fingers up more twats than I'd like to confess. Never underestimate professionalism as a shield against the distasteful.
ROFLMAO!! You're definitely on a roll today, Dr. Fass! :D
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:27
No it's not. That show had clever story lines, cheezy monsters and fight scenes, and decent comedy. Plus it had these fine ladies.

http://images.sexiest100.org/alysonhannigan,1.jpg

http://www.superiorpics.com/charisma_carpenter/images/main1.jpg

http://www.celebrity-pictures-world.com/pics/e/emma-caulfield/emma-caulfield-002.jpg

http://www.celebrities.pl/sarah_michelle_gellar/sarah_michelle4.jpg

This is like a bad version of "spot the transsexual."
Deep Kimchi
18-02-2006, 18:27
Actually, ob/gyn is one of the fields I find the most interesting, and I've had my fingers up more twats than I'd like to confess. Never underestimate professionalism as a shield against the distasteful.
Mental picture of Fass obsessively scrubbing his hands...
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
18-02-2006, 18:28
Not really, since they're rendered the bigger attention whores they've always been.
Everyone is an attention whore, the only difference is skill at it.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I had no idea that you were so easy to amuse.
Drunk commies deleted
18-02-2006, 18:31
This is like a bad version of "spot the transsexual."
WTF? That's not the picture I linked to. Fucking weird.:confused:
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:33
Everyone is an attention whore, the only difference is skill at it.

I recall a quote that goes "Cheerleaders are dancers who have gone retarded. What [they] do is a tiny, pathetic subset of dancing."

Strippers are without pretence.

I had no idea that you were so easy to amuse.

It makes life easier.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
18-02-2006, 18:33
WTF? That's not the picture I linked to. Fucking weird.:confused:
I'm assuming that the "that" in question was the 1st picture?
Ha ha! Man-Faye strikes again, defending the Interwebs against leeched images!
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:33
WTF? That's not the picture I linked to. Fucking weird.:confused:

Hotlinking is bad, mmkay.
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:34
Mental picture of Fass obsessively scrubbing his hands...

I scrub with the best of them, and the skill comes in handy.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
18-02-2006, 18:39
I recall a quote that goes "Cheerleaders are dancers who have gone retarded. What [they] do is a tiny, pathetic subset of dancing."
At least they are in the plural and there is a chance one might fall into the other one, creating a domino chain of that keeps toppling until one falls into a little bell/gong that is always located at the end of a chain of dominoes.
Strippers are without pretence.
So are koala bears, but you don't see any one jerking off to those.
Well, not many people, anyway.
It makes life easier.
Bah, ease and convenience are ideals of the bourgeouis!
Deep Kimchi
18-02-2006, 18:40
I scrub with the best of them, and the skill comes in handy.
I guess the problem if you were a urologist is that you would always see the ones that were sick. Might end up being a turnoff.
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:43
At least they are in the plural and there is a chance one might fall into the other one, creating a domino chain of that keeps toppling until one falls into a little bell/gong that is always located at the end of a chain of dominoes.

Yet they won't, because, you know, domino is way too complicated.

So are koala bears, but you don't see any one jerking off to those.
Well, not many people, anyway.

You would be surprised.

Bah, ease and convenience are ideals of the bourgeouis!

As is spelling, I see. That's OK. It takes a while to master those English French words.
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:44
I guess the problem if you were a urologist is that you would always see the ones that were sick. Might end up being a turnoff.

Yeah, you'd think so, but my love of the cock is too strong for that to happen.
Drunk commies deleted
18-02-2006, 18:44
Hotlinking is bad, mmkay.
Why?
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:47
Why?

Because bandwidth costs money, and because people are taking more precautions to stop it. You should be happy it didn't redirect to a goatse or tubgirl pic.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
18-02-2006, 18:48
Yet they won't, because, you know, domino is way too complicated.
Like, totally.
You would be surprised.
No, I don't think I would be. I have met furries before, and I have seen what the hand of man hath wrought upon MySpace and Geocities.
As is spelling, I see.
To spell the name of the Boregigigigigigious properly is to become one of their vile order.
Drunk commies deleted
18-02-2006, 18:48
Because bandwidth costs money, and because people are taking more precautions to stop it. You should be happy it didn't redirect to a goatse or tubgirl pic.
Gotcha.
Deep Kimchi
18-02-2006, 18:49
Because bandwidth costs money, and because people are taking more precautions to stop it. You should be happy it didn't redirect to a goatse or tubgirl pic.
If I find a pic I want to post, I download it, put it on photobucket, and link to my photobucket.

Problem solved.
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:52
No, I don't think I would be. I have met furries before, and I have seen what the hand of man hath wrought upon MySpace and Geocities.

You are on MySpace? That's sadder than me being on here telling you it's sad.

To spell the name of the Boregigigigigigious properly is to become one of their vile order.

It has a certain je ne sais quoi, though, the air of laisser tomber.
Fass
18-02-2006, 18:53
If I find a pic I want to post, I download it, put it on photobucket, and link to my photobucket.

Problem solved.

Congrats.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
18-02-2006, 19:03
You are on MySpace? That's sadder than me being on here telling you it's sad.
Not now. It was part of "Operation: Hardened Jade", find all the horrible things the Interweb can produce and consume them as quickly as possible. In the space of a month I hit tub girl, goatse, furries, fundies, fanfics, MySpace, a hundred blogs, and everything else that was deadly to one's sanity.
I like to think that I have become a stronger person for the effort, though it really just left me with a driving desire to wash out my eye sockets with bleach.
It has a certain je ne sais quoi, though, the air of laisser tomber.
You keep that "lazy trombone" to yourself, Swede. We don't parlons none of that français around here.
Solarea
18-02-2006, 19:04
The second article is quite disturbingly familiar.

It has a certain je ne sais quoi, though, the air of laisser tomber.

You can use quoi like pas or rien?
Velkya
18-02-2006, 19:06
A bunch of North Korean cheerleaders have been placed in a prison camp because they spoke of what they saw in South Korea. The Cheerleaders were sent to S. Korea for the Asian Games. Upon returning to N. Korea they violated their pledge not to talk about conditions in the South.

If I were going to go to a N. Korean prison camp I would really like to go to the one with Cheerleaders. What better to raise one's spirits than perky girls in short skirts jumping around? Maybe N. Korea isn't so bad after all.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060217/D8FQRS087.html

I can't wait till I see a picture of an M1A2 rolling through Pyongyang, really.
Fass
18-02-2006, 19:24
You can use quoi like pas or rien?

No, but you can use "ne" on its own without "pas" or "point" with certain verbs to negate them, the most common being "savoir," "oser," "pouvoir" and "cesser."

So, "Je ne peux me passer de lui" or "Il n'ose faire un pas sans son homme" or "Le chien des pédés ne cesse d'aboyer" or "Ils ne savent que dire" (note: that last one is thus not "ne..que" in the meaning of "only," but "ne savent que" in the meaning "does not know what").
Fass
18-02-2006, 19:26
Not now. It was part of "Operation: Hardened Jade", find all the horrible things the Interweb can produce and consume them as quickly as possible. In the space of a month I hit tub girl, goatse, furries, fundies, fanfics, MySpace, a hundred blogs, and everything else that was deadly to one's sanity.
I like to think that I have become a stronger person for the effort, though it really just left me with a driving desire to wash out my eye sockets with bleach.

Ten kronor for every time I heard that excuse.

You keep that "lazy trombone" to yourself, Swede. We don't parlons none of that français around here.

Evidently.
Solarea
18-02-2006, 19:46
No, but you can use "ne" on its own without "pas" or "point" with certain verbs to negate them, the most common being "savoir," "oser," "pouvoir" and "cesser."

So, "Je ne peux me passer de lui" or "Il n'ose faire un pas sans son homme" or "Le chien des pédés ne cesse d'aboyer" or "Ils ne savent que dire" (note: that last one is thus not "ne..que" in the meaning of "only," but "ne savent que" in the meaning "does not know what").

Oh. Thanks.
Fass
18-02-2006, 21:32
Oh. Thanks.

It's little nuances like those that make me love French.
Markreich
18-02-2006, 22:35
Markreich
It helps! If Sweden were to add cheerleaders (say, for Hockey), then maybe your rates of alcoholism & suicide would dip!

They are already low. Wait, are you one of those people who still think they are high because we were the first country to correctly report and measure them half a century ago?

Chuckle. No longer being #1 on the planet does not equal low.

"Sweden once had one of the highest suicide rates in the world. At its peak in 1970, approximately 25 Swedes per 100,000 committed suicide. The suicide rate declined by more than one-third between the years 1970 and 2002. Sweden no longer leads the world in this statistic." http://paa2006.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=60962

Acording to the World Health Organization, Sweden's rate is still (per 100,000) double the US's for women, and 2 higher than the US's.
http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suiciderates/en/

So: Cheerleaders = lower suicide rates! :D
Solarea
18-02-2006, 22:39
It's little nuances like those that make me love French.

Eh, it'll always be Quenya for me, though I'm still at the very beginning of my learning curve.